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20 May 2010 15:00

Grab iTunes Artwork for Music, Movies, and TV Shows
Photo by Photo Mojo
Matthew wote in with a roundabout way to retrieve blocked high-res iTunes artwork:
It’s been a real drag not being able to get at the high-resolution artwork since Apple blocked our attempts (Ex: The Josher Method). But there is a new found way that is available to anyone that owns an Apple TV or possibly a regular Mac! While browsing my Apple TV, I noticed that when a movie, TV show, or song is selected, there is a high-res image of the album/cover art displayed to the left. This got me thinking, it has to be stored somewhere for it to show it. I did some digging and found a folder in the file system for just that purpose. Full-sized art in unencrypted jpg format is “cached” in separate folders on the hard drive.
With a SSH or FTP-enabled Apple TV, navigate to /mnt/Scratch/private/tmp/Front Row/Images
There, folders contain the cover art of all music/TV shows/movies that was selected in the last browsing session!
There will also be the low-res images there, but ignore them. The high-res images will be named original.jpg.